The Chief Practical Use Of History Is

California, More Than Any Other Part Of The Union, Is A Country By Itself, And San Francisco A Capital.

A Political Career Brings Out The Basest Qualities In Human Nature.

Perhaps The Most Typically American Place In America.

The People, Though We Think Of A Great Entity When We Use The Word, Means Nothing More Than So Many Millions Of Individual Men.

It Is Accepted As An Axiom By All Americans That The Civil Power Ought To Be Not Only Neutral And Impartial As Between Different Forms Of Faith, But Ought To Leave These Matters Entirely On One Side, Regarding Them No More Than It Regards The Artistic Or Literary Pursuits Of The Citizens.